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Jun. 17th, 2015 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesMy left eye, which is the one Lily poked me in, hurt all day Monday. My right eye hurt all day yesterday, probably because it was doing more work than it wanted to. Neither eye hurts today, so that's progress.
This morning my FB friends list included the meme "What's the one thing you can't live without?" Most of the answers were "my kids". I had to think for a solid minute before I came up with my answer: vision correction. I would figure out how to live with it if my vision were bad and uncorrectable, but thankfully it is correctable, and therefore corrected. My thought process boiled down to "what won't I travel without?", because aside from food, shelter, clothing and enough money to provide those things to a level that keeps me alive and out of jail, I could get along without pretty much all of my other material possessions. I might not be happy about losing some of it, but if I had to, I could. Mentally, anyway.
Just by virtue of having a life expectancy of more than 15-20 years, I'm guaranteed to have to live without the Hairy Beasts eventually. Not to say I won't go and get other hairy beasts when the time comes, but they won't be The Hairy Beasts. They'll have to be collectively known as something else. (The Bloodthirsty Jungle Demons are now the Bloodthirsty Jungle Demon, which is sad. Galileo and Bonnie both died in the past year, at the age of 12. Zoe continues to be Zoe, as far as I know.)
Good heavens, that's depressing.
This morning my FB friends list included the meme "What's the one thing you can't live without?" Most of the answers were "my kids". I had to think for a solid minute before I came up with my answer: vision correction. I would figure out how to live with it if my vision were bad and uncorrectable, but thankfully it is correctable, and therefore corrected. My thought process boiled down to "what won't I travel without?", because aside from food, shelter, clothing and enough money to provide those things to a level that keeps me alive and out of jail, I could get along without pretty much all of my other material possessions. I might not be happy about losing some of it, but if I had to, I could. Mentally, anyway.
Just by virtue of having a life expectancy of more than 15-20 years, I'm guaranteed to have to live without the Hairy Beasts eventually. Not to say I won't go and get other hairy beasts when the time comes, but they won't be The Hairy Beasts. They'll have to be collectively known as something else. (The Bloodthirsty Jungle Demons are now the Bloodthirsty Jungle Demon, which is sad. Galileo and Bonnie both died in the past year, at the age of 12. Zoe continues to be Zoe, as far as I know.)
Good heavens, that's depressing.
